Insisted
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In each instance, when the world's collective decision differed from what America wanted, President Bush
insisted
that America get its way.
Economic ministers suggested that pension reform and long-term fiscal sustainability should also guide country evaluations under the SGP, while some countries
insisted
that it should be linked to the Lisbon agenda.
As a ruling party, Hamas has
insisted
that its sole concern is the Palestinian people, not a global Islamic revolution.
“Oh, you can have labor rights without democracy,” Weisel
insisted.
For example, pharmaceutical companies have
insisted
that the TPP force all countries to grant 12-year patents on prescription drugs – increasing their profits while delaying competition from cheaper generic versions.
Until now, European countries with fiscal leeway have
insisted
on spending and investment cuts that, together with tax increases, have reduced economic activity and increased unemployment, ultimately compromising tax collection – and thus fiscal consolidation.
Russian officials have expressed some interest in these projects (some of which were originally proposed by the Kremlin), but they have
insisted
on first achieving consensus with the US on underlying strategic principles.
It carries echoes of the declining years of the Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev, when Marxist apologists
insisted
that there was nothing wrong with communism, except that humanity wasn’t yet mature enough for it.
Instead, donor governments and the World Bank have
insisted
for years that impoverished countries cut financing to these villages, under the guise of promoting “macroeconomic stability” – a polite way of demanding debt repayment – and reflecting the ideological delusion that the private sector will step in.
Nevertheless, the euro-zone’s member countries
insisted
on maintaining their full sovereignty in this area.
Bank regulators had long
insisted
that the safest possible financial instrument was a bond issued by a rich industrial country.
In the past, the US has
insisted
on trying to impose its own models of development and democratization on foreign countries.
North Korea, he insisted, must not allow itself to be used by China.
Once back home, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had
insisted
for months that the facility had to be terminated, celebrated this as a victory over the rest of Europe.
At a cabinet meeting, he
insisted
that the challenge to the new republic had to be put down.
At the same time, financial markets are forcing fiscal retrenchment on governments, as will the planned new fiscal treaty (on which Germany, among others, insisted).
The worst way is to blame a few students who
insisted
on that right until it was too late.
Even so, Lula
insisted
that he should change his attitude.
During his meeting in Berlin with Merkel last December, Lula
insisted
on the Brazilian government’s traditional position: sanctions, such as those that the United States strongly advocates, lead to nothing; the best way forward is dialogue.
But Brazil
insisted
on the path of dialogue and began talking with other stakeholders in the Iranian question, such as Turkey, whose foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, recently staked out a similar position.
Communists, too, following the good old Russian slogan "kill the Yids, save Russia
" insisted
that, yes, the Jews were conspiring, once again, to ruin Russia.
But they still
insisted
that steady increases of demand at a fast enough rate would keep demand one step ahead of the money wage level, so that employment could be kept as high as desired, albeit at the cost of steady inflation.
David Kay, perhaps the most effective arms inspector,
insisted
that he did not trust them.
After a year of negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo, President Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin rejected the UN mediator’s report recommending supervised independence, prevented the Security Council from accepting that report, and
insisted
on three additional months of negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo – even after compromise became impossible.
Three weeks ago in the UN Security Council, Russia again
insisted
that any agreement required the approval of both Serbia and Kosovo, and that further negotiations were necessary.
The writer James Baldwin put the case for “progressive” patriotism well: he loved America more than any country in the world, and for that reason
insisted
on the right to criticize her perpetually.
The EU has long
insisted
that a legally binding divorce settlement must be concluded before there can be any discussion of future UK-EU relations.
For its part, the UK government
insisted
that it can address the border issue by remaining in close alignment with EU customs rules and deploying customs-monitoring technologies that have yet to be invented – which is to say, by magic.
Yet the Irish government has
insisted
that every detail of the backstop be nailed down and included in the legally binding withdrawal treaty.
Their proposal was categorically rejected in a joint submission by 16 existing or future member states, all of them small countries, who
insisted
that the principle of rotation must be retained, as a symbol of the equality of all member states.
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